Day to Day

Here are two recent interviews I did: a podcast interview with the UK Wine Show’s Chris Scott and a twitter interview with House and Leisure magazine.

Out talented winemaker Guillaume Nel popped in to the Cape Town studio of Classic FM last Friday to chat about the Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. Here is the podcast from the interview. Guillaume Interview

It has been a pretty good week under the Simonsberg, with some great recognition of our wines by international judges and retailers. Now, here at Backsberg we have faith in our wines, we know they’re awesome, but it is always nice to hear it form someone else. It’s like your mom will always tell you [...]

Here are two press-clippings that have been sent to us. The first is Backsberg being profiled for an advertorial for Liqorama, and the second two are reports of Back brothers (Sydney and Cyril) winning awards at the Boberg Wine Show. Unfortunately the clippings do not show the exact dates, but are more than likely from [...]

April was a bit of a crazy month here at Backsberg. Not just because harvest came to and end and there was the usual end of harvest run around, but because the first week of April this year saw the Klein Karoo Nationale Kunsterfees take place in Oudtshoorn.

Last week I was in Denmark for a couple of days. It was a busy first day: I met up with our importers, watched the Danish National Sommelier Championships and saw some of Copenhagen’s top restaurants.

The next two days for Backsberg are going to be pretty big days with around 50 tons of grapes coming in. That’s a lot of grapes. That’s the same weight as about five fully grown African Elephants. These two days push us well into the second half of harvest. So far it has been a [...]

I recently attended our UK importer, Ellis of Richmond’s, portfolio tasting in London, and I was pleasantly surprised to see an upbeat mood in the market.

I am heading to Europe to take up managing our exports. Wish me luck.

Earlier this month Backsberg took part in the 3rd Franschhoek ‘Magic of Bubbles’ Cap Classique and Champagne Festival. The theme this year was black and white and the ladies were dressed to the nines. And I think I now understand what that phrase means, nine inch heels, accompanied by nine inch long skirts. I didn’t [...]